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A Lurker's History of Paradox and the Paradox Community *
by Stacy Rowley

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The Mid-1990s Windows Days: the People (the Product Add-ins)

Kallista came out with Object Spy, a documentation utility, and MOM (Menu Object Manager) which helped design modal pop-up menus. Object Spy was later sold to Borland and incorporated in PW as two built-in experts. From the PDOS days, Adapta Software, Inc. took their PDOS AdaptAccounts and produced a PW version that still sells in 2001. There were others, but there was little market for add-ins and their life was short.

Paradox Queries for Windows Books, however, were another story. A number of good ones came out in the PW 4.5 to PW 5.01 time frame. Dan Ehrmann brought out Paradox Queries for Windows, an update of his early query books. Although out of print in a few years, people still seek used copies, which is quite an endorsement. Joe Fung wrote Paradox for Windows Essential Power Programming to present ObjectPAL approaches to a variety of situations. Paradox for Windows Essential Power Programming
Killer Paradox 5 for Windows Nine authors contributed chapters to Killer Paradox 5 for Windows, covering the basic building blocks, ObjectPAL, and application development. Leon Chalnick Leon Chalnick headed up this writing effort. The other eight were Emery Galambos, Richard Haven, Don Goyette, Tarik Ghbeish, Jon Matcho, Joel Rothchild, John Moore, and Henrik Bechmann.

Programming Paradox 5 for Windows Cary Jensen and Loy Anderson produced one of the better introductions into developing ObjectPAL applications in their book Programming Paradox 5 for Windows, Third Edition. Mike Prestwood, a former Borlander, produced What Every Paradox 4.5 Programmer Should Know (followed by What Every Paradox 5 Programmer Should Know, Paradox 7 Programming Unleashed, and Paradox 9 Power Programming). These presented many of the ObjectPAL methods in some detail. Greg Salcedo and Martin Rudy wrote Paradox 5 Power Programming Secrets.


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The Borland-to-Corel Windows Days: the software, Version 7 &
The Borland-to-Corel Windows Days: Borland sells to Corel



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